vIdentity

I’m wondering for what reasons SocialMedia apps always specialize one just on media? Flickr for picture, youtube for vids, del.icio.us for bookmarks? No system to get it all in one? Why?

Is it due gain higher usability? To create a hotspot?

My opinion:
This specialization has different reasons. One reasons is that systems supporting multiple media, need a clear structure with a high usability. Otherwise, the user would be overwhelmed by to many functions and will get lost what lowers his interest on the service. This is not easy to gain.
Another reason for specializing on just one media is to create a hotspot provider in this field of topic to attract and join people of same interest and build up a huge community. For example, Photographers meet at the online photo gallery flickr or music lovers at the music platform last.fm.
At least, searching media in specialized systems can be performed more precised and specific what leads to
more reliable results, imagine searching for music by artist, or pictures by color.

What do you say?

Who has not read my thesis about “Semantische Aggregation personenbezogener Daten” published by XML Clearinghouse is now able to study a more professional,  more precisly, but english drawn up article about “what do we get from virtual identities, if we do so in a much larger approach”.  Written by Hugo Liu, Pattie Maes, Glorianna Davenport (MIT) named Unraveling the Taste Fabric of Social Networks reveals what is possible with myspace.com, ontologies and many other cutting-edge technologies. Even Plato, the old greek, comes into play.

So prepare yourself and your identity on myspace.com or only be amazed what is possible.